Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:53:41 -0500 From: madodel Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: GIMPS Mersenne Prime Search client for OS/2 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Zoë Butler http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm ''A Mersenne prime is a prime number of the form 2P-1. There are 41 known Mersenne primes. The first few values of P which yield a Mersenne prime are 2, 3, 5, 7, 13 (the corresponding primes are 3, 7, 31, 127, 8191)." The Mersenne Prime Search uses the unused CPU cycles to search for more Mersenne Prime numbers. So far they have found 3 more beyond the original 41. There is a prize of $100,000 to the group that finds a ten million digit prime number. More on how the prize would be divided can be found at http://www.mersenne.org/prize.htm OS/2: Max Alekseyev has ported the Linux version to OS/2. Download his os2v2414.zip(1.2MB) zipped executable. Version 24.14, last updated February 3, 2006. ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/os2v2414.zip -- Warpstock 2007 - Where? http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock.net [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news your.email.address at here end Or, visit http://www.os2voice.org/MailingLists.html If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org or go to http://www.os2voice.org/fSubNews.html . Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org